Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-09-16
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
An Epitsns Of The Principal Events Now
Attracting Public Interest

The Amer OF Afghanlstan Is re-
ported TO be dying.
Lord Donevaile died in County Cork,
Ireland, OF hydrophobia.
A. III. Morris, well-known theatrical
man of st. Louis, suicided.
Three persons were drowned in
Lake Superior by the capsizing OF a
boat.
The Kabbabish tribe defeated the
Dervishes in the Cagari country, kill
ing 1900.
Two men were killed and seventeen
people injured by a railroad collision
near Wheeling, w. Va.
A woman was killed, boy fatally
Injured and a dozen people hurt by the
fall OF an elevator in New Y FORK building
Two brothers, John and Frank
Newer, were shot and instantly killed
at Apache, Neb., during quarrel with
railroad graders over a keg OF beer.
Henry Willard is again power in
Wall street. He is credited with pur-
chasing $1,000, 900 of N. P. and O. r.
& N. stock. 1t is rumored that he will
secure control OF those corporations.
At Paris an oculist named Padrona
murdered his wife and two children.
He shot Madame Padrona six times in
the face, and cut the Threats of his
two year-old boy and three-year-
girl
Charles Cousins, young man, was
found in the cellar of deserted shanty
in San Francisco in dying condition
He had crawled in there and remained
for week without food or water. He
died shortly after removal to the hos
pital from starvation.
A. Mead, miner near Tres Piedras
N. NJ, shot and killed three of his
partners and was himself killed by the
fourth, CHS brother, after desperate
struggle for the possession of the gun
The trouble grew out of an attempt tC
swindle Mead out OF his property.
An engine on the east bound Lead
vile express went through the Beaver
creek bridge, Pueblo, Colo, killing
Engineer Shaw and two others, one
being trmp. Several were wounded
The accident was due to large rock
falling from the side Of the canyon
crushing through the bridge.
Michael Butler, recently discharged
from the position as keeper in the in
sane asylum on Wards Island, New
York, has petilioned the Supreme
Court for the release of number Of
patients as sane. He declares that o.
the 1850 inmates no less than 300 are
perfectly sane, and that 1000 other;
are perfectly harmless lunatics.
"Boys, will be the next man killed
on this road,", said Trackman James
Delaney of the Santa Fe road the Other
day, when two tramps were mangled
His prediction was realized. Just be
fore nightflll the following day he wa.
caught between tracks on trestle b.,
two trains, and in attempting to es
cape fell head foremost on the rail
He was decapitated instantly, while
his body was thrown upon the Other
track and torn into shreds.
At Chadron, Neb., two railroad
graders, named Amman and Rogers
attempted to force an entrance into
the house of Mrs. Rotts, the wife of {
barber of that place. Mrs. Rotts warned
them to desist, and not needing hel
warning she picked up pistol lyine
on the center table and shot the fore
most one in the groin. The ball, which
was 44-calibre, passed through and
hit the other man in the same place
The wounds produced were fatal.
AT the Mercer county fair at Prince
ton, Mo-, Randall Blakeslee, a half
breed Indian, made balloon ascension
hanging to trapeze bar. In the
ascent the balloon shot up suddenly
giving Blakeslee a severe wrench, anC
he was unable to pull himself on the
bar, but managed to hold himself W
by loop he had drawn around hi,
wrist. After travelling about a mile
and half and having reached an alti
tude of 2000 feet, the balloon begar
the descent; but the poor fellows
strength gave out, and when within
500 feet of the earth his grip relaxed
and he fell to the earth lighting on hi,
feet, his thighs being broken ant
driven into his body.
Captain Rockwell, of the United
STATES coast and geodetic survey, ha,
made a special report upon Capes
Lookout and Meares, on the Oregon
coast, as to their relative Importance
for light house site. Congress at it.
last session made an appropriation fol
a light house at Cape Mearts, or some
other selected point. AT Cape Look
out he reports very good harbor O
refuge in heavy northwest weather
This cape Is a rather remarkable pro
montory of basaltic rock jutting boldly
from the general direction of the cos S
line for one and half miles to ives
southwest. The height OF this pro
montory is 450 feet at the leewart
face, which is only four or five hun
dred yards broad. 1t is covered will
spruce and hemloek, and is trans
versely cut by deep and very rough de
| pressions. The water close under the
point of this cape is apparently yer,
deep, as there was no sign of breaker,
in large northwest swell. Wher
very violent winds were blowing from
the northwest there was smooth watel
to the leeward of the cape. Tn,
southern face of the cape is very stee,
and rocky, and is nearly straight
line. Small steamers running iron
Astoria to Nestucca river make use o
this anchorage as a refuge under stres,